Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Weaver
Thanks for all the pointers. Maybe I'm just unlucky with Audacity. Weirdly, enough a circular email has gone round announcing the release of Audacity 1.3.8. I'm downloading a copy of 64studio to have a look at. cheers, Chris 2009/7/17 Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com Chris Have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencasts was:Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Weaver
Thanks for the links. I'll download the torrent and have a watch. I think the real issue is the numerous audio frameworks on Linux such as ALSA, OSS, Pulseaudio etc etc each with their own advantages and disadvantages, hence making tweaking a system problematic. - chris 2009/7/17 Alan Pope

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

2009-07-20 Thread Liam Proven
2009/7/19 William Anderson ne...@well.com: Liam Proven wrote: [snip] #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its working life as long as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Beard
Liam Proven wrote: 2009/7/19 William Anderson ne...@well.com: Liam Proven wrote: [snip] #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Beard
Liam Proven wrote: 2009/7/19 William Anderson ne...@well.com: Liam Proven wrote: [snip] #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

2009-07-20 Thread Liam Proven
2009/7/20 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Liam Proven wrote: 2009/7/19 William Anderson ne...@well.com: Liam Proven wrote: [snip] #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT equipment is spent making

[ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Rowson
Interesting little story found on /. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Beard
Chris Rowson wrote: Interesting little story found on /. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL Chris Anyone known the URL for the weather in Hell on the Met Office web site? :-) Still, sounds good that they are releasing something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

2009-07-20 Thread alan c
Rob Beard wrote: Chris Rowson wrote: Interesting little story found on /. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL Chris Anyone known the URL for the weather in Hell on the Met Office web site? :-) yes, I think the last I heard the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers as GPL

2009-07-20 Thread James Mansion
Rob Beard wrote: Still, sounds good that they are releasing something under the GPL, funny how they didn't release it under GPL 3. Because that would mean it couldn't go into Linux? James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk